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Which ethnic flavor is the rice cake?

The Korean people.

The staple food of the Korean people is characterized by cold noodles and rice cakes. In the height of summer, every Korean family eats cold noodles, and even in winter cold noodles are favored by many. This cold noodles are rolled with buckwheat flour and starch, and some also use white or rice noodles. After the noodles are pressed into shape, they are put directly into boiling water to cook, then soaked in cool water to cool, fished out and added with beef, dog meat, shredded egg, chili, sesame, sesame oil, shredded apples and pears, etc., and then poured with some dog meat soup. It tastes sweet and sour, fragrant and spicy, cool and refreshing.

There are many kinds of rice cakes, such as cake, cut cake and slice cake. The rice cake is an indispensable staple food for the Korean people during festivals and red and white celebrations to entertain guests. As the name suggests, it is made by hand. The specific production method of the cake is, first steamed glutinous rice, and then with a wooden whip in the wooden mortar into a cake, there are two people to play, there is also a person to play, usually about half an hour, and then take out and cut into slices, put a small red bean paste surface, and then dipped in honey or sugar, eat up the flavor.